The video that we watched on Tuesday this week presented to us seven unexpected uses of overripe bananas and banana peels.
The video starts off by showing us the aftermath of a party. Person 1 (I'll call him Homely from now on) wakes up to find that his home is a mess - and only hours away from being visited by his parents. Homely, hands on head in shock, immediately starts to clean the house. Just as he's about to throw away some overripe bananas, when Person 2 (Caveman, a rare specimen of Homo sapiens bananavorus) comes to the rescue.
The first was using a banana peel to clean leather shoes, and the second was to also use a peel to wipe dust off household plants. Thirdly, Caveman shows us that pieces of an overripe banana could be used to polish wooden, lacquered furniture. A banana skin could stop a bug bite from stinging and also remove ink stains from human skin. Finally, banana pieces can be used to clean off scratches on CDs, as well as trap fruit flies when put in a plastic bag. As they say, time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana; the characters manage to clean their house barely on time and the parents come at 12:30. Clearly, they've had fun going bananas.
Knowledge of how bananas can be used in many different purposes is definitely something that I'll keep in mind every time I eat one from now on.
As for who Caveman is, who knows? Since he knows so much about bananas, maybe he's studying biology and chemistry, or grew up in Uganda (the top consumer of bananas worldwide), or even an imaginary friend.
